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Neat to see on HN. My grandfather, Horace Leonard Gold (H.L. Gold), created Galaxy Magazine. It was kind of a hot little startup in 1950s N.Y. He had some very strong opinions about what made good scifi, liked to pay writers more than was standard, but also pissed off a number of them (including Asimov).

I still haven't sat down and read them all cover-to-cover but I've been meaning to for a long time. I hope they stay up on archive.org. I'm sure he would want as many people as possible to enjoy them.




Thanks for sharing! Why was Asimov upset? He felt he was paid too little?


I believe they worked together very well actually, but my grandfather could apparently be far too harsh with his feedback. Asimov complained bitterly in his autobiography about this, but also gave him some grudging respect.

I think my grandfather thought he was helping by pushing writers really hard to do their best work. He probably was right to some degree but clearly took it too far at times.


From the contents of Galaxy, and the output of Asimov, I have to say I agree with your grandfather 100%.




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